Part 232

Stra`to-cu"mu*lus (?), n. [Stratus + cumulus.] (Meteor.) Large balls or rolls of dark cloud which frequently cover the whole sky, esp. in winter, and give it at times an undulated appearance.

Stream clock. (Physiol.) An instrument for ascertaining the velocity of the blood in a vessel.

Stream gold. (Mining) Gold in alluvial deposits; placer gold.

Stream line. The path of a constituent particle of a flowing fluid undisturbed by eddies or the like.

Stream"line` (?), a. Of or pert. to a stream line; designating a motion or flow that is free from turbulence, like that of a particle in a streamline; hence, designating a surface, body, etc., that is designed so as to afford an unbroken flow of a fluid about it, esp. when the resistance to flow is the least possible; as, a streamline body for an automobile or airship.

Stream wheel. A wheel used for measuring, by its motion when submerged, the velocity of flowing water; a current wheel.

Stress (?), v. t. 1. To subject to phonetic stress; to accent.

2. To place emphasis on; to make emphatic; emphasize.

Strike (?), n. 1. A sudden finding of rich ore in mining; hence, any sudden success or good fortune, esp. financial.

2. (Bowling, U. S.) Act of leveling all the pins with the first bowl; also, the score thus made. Sometimes called double spare.

3. (Baseball) Any actual or constructive striking at the pitched ball, three of which, if the ball is not hit fairly, cause the batter to be put out; hence, any of various acts or events which are ruled as equivalent to such a striking, as failing to strike at a ball so pitched that the batter should have struck at it.

4. (Tenpins) Same as Ten- strike.

String (?), n. 1. (a) In various indoor games, a score or tally, sometimes, as in American billiard games, marked by buttons threaded on a string or wire. (b) In various games, competitions, etc., a certain number of turns at play, of rounds, etc.

2. (Billiards & Pool) (a) The line from behind and over which the cue ball must be played after being out of play as by being pocketed or knocked off the table; -- called also string line. (b) Act of stringing for break.

3. A hoax; a trumped-up or "fake" story. [Slang]

String, v. t. To hoax; josh; jolly. [Slang]

String, v. i. To form into a string or strings, as a substance which is stretched, or people who are moving along, etc.

Strip"per, n. (Agric.) A cow that has nearly stopped giving milk, so that it can be obtained from her only by stripping.

Struc"tur*al shape. (Engin. & Arch.) The shape of a member especially adapted to structural purposes, esp. in giving the greatest strength with the least material. Hence, Colloq., any steel or iron member of such shape, as channel irons, I beams, T beams, etc., or, sometimes, a column, girder, etc., built up with such members.

Structural steel. (a) Rolled steel in structural shapes. (b) A kind of strong mild steel, suitable for structural shapes.

||Stun"dist (?), n. [Russ. shtundist, prob. fr. G. stunde hour; -- from their meetings for Bible reading.] (Eccl. Hist.) One of a large sect of Russian dissenters founded, about 1860, in the village of Osnova, near Odessa, by a peasant, Onishchenko, who had apparently been influenced by a German sect settled near there. They zealously practice Bible reading and reject priestly dominion and all external rites of worship. -- Stun"dism (#), n.

Stunt (?), n. [Cf. Stint a task.] A feat hard to perform; an act which is striking for the skill, strength, or the like, required to do it; a feat. [Colloq.]

An extraordinary man does three or four different "stunts" with remarkable dexterity.

The Bookman.

He does not try to do stunts; and, above all, he does not care to go in swimming.

L. Hutton.

||Sty"lus, n. In a photograph, a pointed piece which is moved by the vibrations given to the diaphragm by a sound, and produces the indented record; also, a pointed piece which follows the indented record, vibrates the diaphragm, and reproduces the sound.

{ Sty"mie (?), n. Also Sti"my }. [Orig. uncertain.] (Golf) The position of two balls on the putting green such that, being more than six inches apart, one ball lies directly between the other and the hole at which the latter must be played; also, the act of bringing the balls into this position.